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I read about that, they also thought the colours chosen for the Super Bowl determined what teams got to the SB, so I laugh and move on. PM class made the difference in the end in a tight game, I agree, unfortunate couple of errors didn't help.
Do you follow a team or just the sport in general?
It's difficult because of the way it's set up for a team to dominate over the years (some do but they eventually fall away). The worst teams in a season get the first picks of players coming out of college, there are no transfer fees though there are "trades", there's a salary cap and every team gets an equal payout of TV money (apparently $249M each in 2022). This equality is seen as vital.
If anyone could be perceived as the Man U of the NFL then I would guess that would be the Dallas Cowboys who (I think) christened themselves America's Team and there's much laughter when they balls it up (which is often).
Edit: It should be noted there are only 32 teams in the league so whichever team is closest to you will be big and in with a chance of competing.
It'd be interesting to find out if they have glory hunters over there or whether everyone's so far apart it seems daft to follow anyone else. I'm not sure if it's civic pride or because your local team can't drop down divisions so everyone has equal standing. Cincinnati went from the worst team in the league to the Superbowl in 2 years so no real point giving up on your own.
I watched the Documentary "Bye bye Barry" about Barry Sanders, that was a good watch.
If you look at a map of the NFL teams there's gaping holes in the map and a lot of miles between teams so I suppose not everyone gets a 'local' team. Also the way people move around the US for college and work, I suppose someone born in NY brought up to support the giants could move to New Mexico and bring his kids up as giants fans?
I like the Purdy story so I might stick with the Niners and see how he progresses from being 'Mr Irrelevant'
I’ve been to a few college games and it certainly is an experience.
My Mrs and her family are bonkers on Ohio State.
Columbus, Ohio on Match weekend is fun.
Tailgating for me though…it’s just not something I’ve enjoyed.
Give me a dodgy boozer with shitty lager and a slight edge any day :)
There's 11 stadiums in the world with capacities of over 100k. 8 of them are the homes of US College teams.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...ms_by_capacity
Is it cheap to get into these college games? I imagine it's.more of a day trip than just going down the city.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/...football-team/
Just looked out of curiosity...
edit here's another site https://seatgeek.com/ncaa-football-tickets
How many college teams getting these big gates are represented in the big American cities
A crowd of say 70000 for a college game is impressive but not if a city the size of Birmingham or Glasgow or Liverpool only has 1 major college side
If college football is the main way that the Americans watch their sport then crowds that the likes of United , Spurs , Arsenal get but multiplied two or three times in say Detroit or Seattle would certainly be worthy of note
The point I am trying to make is if Dallas or Houston have college teams with big gates it should be no surprise as both those cities are absolutely enormous populations
edited my original post with this https://seatgeek.com/ncaa-football-tickets